Improvement in fare-registers



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FARE REGLSTER.

Patented Dec.'5,1876.

Will/77% ESSE UNITED STATES ATENT QEETCEG A WILLIAM STOKES, OF NEW YORK,N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARE-REGISTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,053, dated December5, 1876; application filed August 7, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM SToKEs, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and Improved Fare-Indicator, of which thefollowing is a specification The object of this invention is to providea neat, cheap, and accurate device for indicating fares received onstreet-cars, o r other public conveyance, or place where the same may beapplied, each fare being indicated by a stationary hand on a revolvingdial, together with the sound of a bell or other sonorons instrumentprovided for such purpose, so that each passenger may have a check onthe conductor, the construction and operation of my invention beingdescribed as follows: i

Figure l represents a front view of my improved fare-indicator. Fig. 2is a sectional view of the same through the line a' m.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

In the ease here presented, A represents a dial, having its facegraduated from 0 to 100. 0n the under side of the said dial there is aratchet-Wheel, B, having one hundred teeth,

in which the spring-pawl C engages. This pawl is pivoted on the arm D,which turns loose on the pillar supporting the rotary dial A. On theopposite end of the said arm there is a friction-wheel, E, which is kepthearing against the face of the Wave-Wheel F by the spring G. H is ashaft, which runs through the box I, and on whose end there is a crankor niiter wheel, J by which the same is operated. On the said shaftthere is also a star-wheel, K, whose prongs serve to trip the bell`leverL simultaneously with the movement of the indicatorwheel, thus callingattention to the fact that a fare has been paid and indicated on thedial.

It will here be observed that the shaft may be turned either to theright or left without affecting the true motion of the dials and soundof the bell. Y

On the periphery of the aforesaid dial A there is a projecting pin orlug, M, opposite 100, so that, upon indicating the one-hundredthpassenger, the pin or lug M will catch a tooth on the under side of thesmall dial N and turn it one point. fore, indicate the number ot'hundred passengers carried, and the large dial the decimal parts of ahundred.

Each dial has an independent hand, P and Q. These hands are rigidlyattached to the sides of the box, as shown in Fig. l. rIhe wholemechanism, being incased in a box under lock and key, cannot be tamperedwith.

I do not limit myself solely to the construction of' fare indicators asa fixture to streetcars, but also propose making them in smaller form,so as to be carried or worn on a strap by the conductor. The face ofthesaid boxes is, in all cases, to be made of glass, so that the registrymay be seen by the passengers.

In cases where the number of passengers carried reaches over` onethousand, I propose to add a third dial, constructed in similar mannerto the dial N, and actuated thereby with each revolution.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as ne7 and desire to secureby Letters Iatent- A Streetcar fare-indicator, consisting of dial A,ratchet-wheel B, spring-pawl G, loose arm D, spring-pressed wheel E,wave-wheel F, shaft H,journaled in box I, wheels J 1I, and lever L, allarranged as and for the purpose specified.

WILLIAM STOKES.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. NASH, GHAs. SEDGWIGK.

This dial will, there-

